On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just over a month later on February 27, an even more powerful earthquake — with a magnitude of 8.8 — hit Chile near ...

Mehdi "Saiid" Saiidi held the third in a series of three bridge shake table tests Oct. 5. The high amplitude tests determine if the bridge model is durable enough to withstand powerful earthquakes.

After a career spent working with computer simulated earthquake research studying ground motion and bridgework, David McCallen has turned toward hardware experimentation analysis as the Director of ...

After Wael Hassan’s house shook violently on Nov. 30, 2018, he got the next big scare: the smartphone tsunami alert ordering him to evacuate. The structural earthquake engineering professor, who was ...

SEATTLE — University of Washington researchers are in San Diego conducting earthquake tests with the tallest building ever on a shake table. This project pushes for widespread use of laminated wood in ...

From the world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator to an international network of seismic stations, UC San Diego is a living laboratory for seismic safety. Researchers across campus are trying to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering has been awarded $16.5 million in federal and state funding to develop the world's most ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- To better reflect its mission of developing solutions to improve resilience against extreme events of all sorts, the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A major earthquake hasn’t struck any of California’s biggest cities in more than three decades, but experts and ...